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Movie Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Reel Weekend | 07 February 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly tells the extraordinary true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, the one-time editor of the French edition of Elle magazine, who in 1995 suffered a stroke that left him entirely paralysed except for his left eye. The film is directed by painter-turned-director Julian Schnabel, and adopts an unconventional narrative technique to depict this remarkable story of triumph over tragedy.
Movie Review: Things We Lost in the Fire
Reel Weekend | 01 February 2008
Susanne Bier's Things We Lost in the Fire once again provides Halle Berry with a proper meaty dramatic role. In this sombre grief-fest, Halle plays a recently widowed woman who strikes up an unusual relationship with a friend of her late husband, a recovering drug addict played by Benicio Del Toro. It doesn't make for a particularly cheery night out, but it is an impressively serious look at loss and redemption.
Reel Weekend | 01 February 2008
3:10 to Yuma is a remake of the 1957 Glenn Ford classic, and stars Christian Bale as a simple farmer who takes the job of escorting notorious villain Russell Crowe to a railway station to await the train of the title. While Jesse James and Seraphim Falls were slow, dark, arty westerns, this film is cast in a more traditional mould. There's a clear-cut good guy and bad guy, a pretty wife who begs her man not to take the job, lots of grizzled men spitting in the dirt and a big climactic gun fight.
Movie Review: In the Valley of Elah
Reel Weekend | 25 January 2008
Crash director Paul Haggis is on the hunt for Oscar with this attempt to address the war in Iraq, and more specifically the effect of that war on its soldiers and their families. Tommy Lee Jones is the father investigating the mysterious death of his soldier son and while it sounds like an oh-so-serious attempt at issue cinema, we reckon that it's worth seeing for one reason alone: the tremendous performance by Tommy Lee Jones.
Movie Trailers | 20 November 2007
Keira Knightley and James McAvoy star in this beautiful adaptation of Ian McEwan's wartime novel exploring the irreparable effects of a young girl's false accusation. Directed by Joe Wright, Atonement earned itself seven Oscar nominations, including Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for the young Saoirse Ronan's debut as the over-imaginative character of Briony, and Best Motion Picture of the Year.
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